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European countries have been growing increasingly wary of relying on Microsoft for critical government and public sector services. Concerns about data privacy, digital sovereignty, and potential governmental surveillance have led many to question the viability of depending on an American tech giant for sensitive infrastructure.

Many worry that dependence on Microsoft could leave them vulnerable to sudden service interruptions or the risk of sensitive data being accessed without consent.

This growing unease has already led Denmark to begin transitioning from Office 365 to LibreOffice, while the German state of Schleswig-Holstein recently abandoned Microsoft Teams and started the shift from Windows to Linux.

And now, another European region is jumping on the "Ditch Microsoft" bandwagon.

Microsoft Software is a No-Go

A translated version of the announcement by the city of Lyon.

The French city of Lyon has taken a major step toward digital sovereignty by officially starting a move away from Microsoft software. . The city is gradually set to replace Microsoft Office with open source alternatives like ONLYOFFICE and switch from Windows to Linux-based operating systems to reduce dependency on proprietary offerings.

Coinciding with this, they have launched the Territoire Numérique Ouvert (TNO), an open source collaborative platform developed with the Métropole de Lyon and the SITIV.

TNO integrates tools such as Jitsi for video conferencing, Nextcloud paired with ONLYOFFICE for document sharing and co-editing, Zimbra for email, Chamilo for online training, and Matrix for instant messaging.

According to the official statement, TNO is already being used by thousands of employees across several local governments in France. All its services are hosted in regional data centers located in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region to ensure full control over public data and meet national digital sovereignty standards.

The project has received €2 million in funding from the Agence Nationale de la Cohésion des Territoires (ANCT).

💬 What do you think of this move? Do you expect more European countries to follow suit?

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Just hopped in to check and it looks like we're effectively DDoSing the Petition site by refreshing.

You can either join the watch party on the official discord, or use some other tracker website to see the numbers get updated to help alleviate the traffic so that more people can sign.

Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/tldrnewseu-are-we-sleepwalking-towards-a-federal-eu

I have been thinking about looking for more European alternatives to Trustpilot for a while as Trustpilot are not trustworthy in my opinion.

They have removed legit reviews and are very expensive for businesses. They have been reported to use aggressive sales tactics, pressuring businesses into paid plans by highlighting negative reviews or offering better visibility for positive ones. Trustpilot has been failing for years to do what it claims it does. For both the customer and the business end.

For both (customer and business), it is better to post reviews on multiple platforms, and for us, it is better if the review platforms are European. I know these are already fairly well known and used in some countries, but not everywhere. Please post links to any others, as I could only find two and hope that there are more.

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